On Aug 23, 2015, at 6:33 AM, (Redacted sender "Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx" for DMARC)
wrote:
Donald Glancy once (is this otiose?) said that you could sing all of Emily
Dickinson's verse to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas," which I
suppose is a good thing, since it's such a beautiful tune.
In Italian, "Yellow Rose" is possibly what Frege would call a
contradictio-in-terminis seeing that 'rosa' means 'pink' -- cfr. "la rosa
rosa".
Cheers
Speranza
There's a yellow rose in Texas, that I am going to see,
No other darky [sic] knows her, no darky only me
She cryed [sic] so when I left her it like to broke my heart,
And if I ever find her, we nevermore will part.
She's the sweetest rose of color this darky ever knew,
Her eyes are bright as diamonds,they sparkle like the dew;
You may talk about your Dearest May, and sing of Rosa Lee,
But the Yellow Rose of Texas beats the belles of Tennessee.
